RE: Warm up time on old capacitor checker

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Original poster: "Dwight Harm" <dwighth-at-traxsoft-dot-com> 

Don't know about capacitance tester, but I'm pretty sure my old Heathkit
VTVM (vacuum-tube-volt-meter) warmed up in less than a minute, altho' I
think it would drift a bit (need to be re-zeroed) over time.
Dwight (semi-old-timer, under 60)

 >-----Original Message-----
 >From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 >Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 7:31 AM
 >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >Subject: Warm up time on old capacitor checker
 >
 >
 >Original poster: "John Richardson" <jprich-at-up-dot-net>
 >
 >Hi,
 >
 >This is directed to a few of the old timers out there.  I have an old
 >hamfest Heathkit capacitor checker, and was doing some MMC readings last
 >night.  It didn't even want to register anything on the green eye until it
 >warmed up for at least ten minutes!  Is this normal for these things?  I'm
 >used to new stuff, where results are instantaneous in this solid state age.
 >Each of my 942 series caps measured out at .15 on this old thing, and a
 >string of 7 measured about .02, even though it should be about .0143.  Do
 >you think that this is accurate, or is my "Ten Minutes to Warm Up Heathkit"
 >off a little bit?  I'm not disappointed if it is, as it was only fifty
 >cents.  One more question, since this is directed at the old timers:  How
 >old is our oldest list member?  I recall John Couture mentioning that he
 >turned eighty five this last year.  It amazes me that the demographics of
 >this hobby are so wide.
 >
 >Thanks,
 >John Richardson
 >
 >